skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Limits To Growth is kind of a test case for whether people got the memo about the academic research crisis or not (which incorporates the replication crisis, but is wider than it).

The World3 model came out of social studies and isn't even really science, given that the authors never tried to obtain evidence for their hypothesis before publishing. World3 is a toy with no predictive value, which is why reimplementing it in HTML is possible: it's just a handful of equations. Such a thing never could make accurate predictions, which was extremely obvious at the time and pointed out by many (e.g. Nordhaus, Smil), but this didn't stop its authors being feted as great scientists regardless.

There's a lot of similarities here with COVID modelling in the sense that these sorts of academic modelling exercises all seem to suffer the same kinds of problems and social failure modes:

• Over-simplified to the point that laypeople can easily spot what's missing.

• Guesses pulled out of thin air are treated as having equal value to measured data.

• An implicit assumption that the population is purely static and doesn't react to changing circumstances in any way. When later the predictions turn out to be wrong it's argued that they would have been right if not for the modelling causing behavioral changes, making the entire exercise unfalsifiable pseudo-science by its own premise.

• Either never validated against reality or actually falsified, but academics pretend otherwise.

• Predictions phrased vaguely enough that what most people would consider to be falsification is later argued to be within the bounds of one of the many possible scenarios.

The uselessness of such modelling exercises is evident in the fact that despite at least 50+ years of investment by academia and government into them, there are no academic computerized models widely being used to predict the course of the society or economy.
The fact that the problem is solvable by technically savvy people doesn’t stop it from being a problem for the general user.
Yeah I mean I never agreed with the article haha
It certainly can.
sounds like an interactive tabloid.

who gives a shit about famous people? authors I assumed died decades ago? Literally I do not give a single shit what Stephen King or JK Rowling thinks

have fun with that, but you just explained why it never appealed to me. Weird idolatry. Reddit has the same problem.

Interesting people talk about ideas, not other people

> something insightful enough

you mean if you play the game and are sufficiently blessed by the algorithm your demigod may offer you a blessing. The algorithm doesn't reward insight, lol.
Which is funny because — Tesla has some of the most open service documentation of any automaker. Trying to get service documentation on any of my vehicles in fleet is a nightmare, but Tesla just has it wide open without even a login.

https://service.tesla.com/en-US/vehicle-models/Model3

Plus the amount of onboard diagnostics is quite amazing for what you get in the built in service menus you can freely hop in and out of, and they keep adding more service routines into the onboard service menu as they go along. (Even things like being able to just… reinstall all the software in all the ECUs at the tap of a button.)

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2046/tesla-service-mode-ho...
Rite Aid's 'Zombie' stores take over America
This sounds like just prescriptive orthodoxy. In fact lots of applications, including big chunks of Rust's own standard library, need unsafe to correctly express their algorithms (doubly linked lists and balanced trees are famous examples of things that can't be borrow checked, the use case in question appears to be a collected heap which would likewise need to live in the same space).

Deciding that these areas "should be a pain" seems tantamount to saying Rust shouldn't be used for them. Which is sort of the article's point.
Tradition? I have no idea. But many events come with a dress code, and in many sports it is pretty strict even though it does not neccessarily have to be. I can see it both ways - the way you dress have nothing to do with how you play. But on the other hand, if there is supposed to be a certain atmosphere and mood at the event, a dress code is not unheard of.

I recall when Kenya (?) wanted to play with sleeveless jerseys in the FIFA World Cup, similar to have like they have in basketball. That did not work out - they had to add sleeves in short order.

EDIT: It was Cameroon in the Africa Cup. Link: https://www.puma-catchup.com/africa-cup-perfect-stage-scanda...
> Why? What's the use case here?

Tech support for relatives. Accessing accounts from different machines. Joint access for family members and friends. Emergency access when a phone or dongle breaks down or gets lost.

Tightly device-tied authentication mechanisms are fundamentally out of touch with the real world.
That article is gold.

While this work is impressive, two things to consider:

- Mixing oil paints is a learned skill. They don't behave intuitively, so this will only going to be useful for people who already paint in physical media (or want to learn that specifically)

- ArtRage has arguably been the most realistic painting software for over a decade, It has a real color mixing mode that has to be enabled (probably not the default for the aforementioned reasons), and gives much closer results [1] than what they have in the samples page. Yet they barely show it in the comparisons.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/T0GwbDV/artrage-mixing.jpg (right: real color blending on)
That's called a lively discussion. What's your problem with that? People here are not technically illiterate, but we aren't smart either, are we? Most of the articles found here talk about issues found while working on or with XYZ. Why do you think that is? Because the people here make mistakes, too, or make wrong decisions. And hosting your own email requires lots of knowledge about server and email security, so a voice emphasizing that is just as much a contribution as a voice emphasizing that you can host your own email.
"Do you expect me to talk Bezos?"

"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to provide me a formulaic plot to provide my algorithm another hook to drive up my streaming market share!"

Though maybe the real plot is to irradiate the world's limited supply of James Bond properties, driving up the value of the only ones that remain?
>The two sides are at an impasse: Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie, but Broccoli doesn’t want to make a new Bond movie with Amazon.

No offense to the Broccoli family or the franchise but these movies aren't exactly full of original new ideas. They've been rehashing the same formula since the 60s. It doesn't take a creative genius to come up with these plots and I'm pretty sure ChatGPT could generate new ones just as effectively
> Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I’ve entered into community with there. While there are many independently maintained servers that provide services to Bluesky and its users, there is only one Bluesky server.

I'm not sure this is up to date, but Bluesky/AT Proto's architecture is pretty complex to wrap my head around so maybe I just misunderstand. The biggest difference is that unlike Mastodon, Bluesky doesn't really have a single concept of an 'instance' that represents an independent segment of the network like Mastodon does. Instead you have PDSs (which is a user and their data), relays (which centrally relay multiple PDSs like a firehose), and the app view (the frontend for visualising the relay and interacting with PDSs).

You can host your own PDS so you are in control of your own data and identity, and you can migrate away from Bluesky-operated PDS to your own, though at the moment you can't migrate back https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/ACCOUNT_MIGR... https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3l5ii332pf32u

Bluesky's AT Proto design has different trade offs to Mastodon. Bluesky seems like the more feature complete, technically superior, twitter-scale design, being expectedly more complex. Mastodon/ActivityPub is easier to boot up something completely decentralised, but hosters often complain about scale. The real test comes down to the resiliancy of the service is the main provider shuts down. At the moment I think Bluesky would suffer a lot more than Mastodon if the company just went away.
HN when Carlsen dropped out of the tournament rather than change his jeans:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527572 338 points | throwup238 | 3 days ago | 423 comments
For what?

That's the crucial question. Because the important parameter to "what is best ?" isn't the "day and age", but the exact use-case, and to lesser extent, requirements, existing stacks, team capabilities etc etc.

If you have a company with 58 wordpress instances, then I'm pretty sure the best option for almost any use-case for the 59th instance is "wordpress".

But if you are an artist that makes and sells bracelets from local sea-shells, with little interest in learning technical stuff, you are almost certainly better of with an etsy and/or shopify. If only for the TCO.

And the bakery around the corner who just needs their opening hours and some nice impression in the form of a video, story and some images (brochureware) online, wix, squarespace or one of its many (open source) competitors.
Or, if you just need a quick three-page landingpage for your tech startup, in a team of mostly software engineers, a hugo or jekyll site is quite probably by far preferable.

There are so many alternatives that "do one thing and do it well (or better than the generalists without focus)". It's really about having the ability to filter through these instead.
Most manufacturers are moving to secure boot by default for all components.
Does anyone know of a smart thermostat that actually has this function? Every thermostat I've looked for has "heat mode" where
it decides if it should be blasting heat or not, and "cool mode", where it decides it should be blasting the AC or not. I have not found the mythical smart thermostat that does the job of "keep the temperature around here" +/- a few degrees.

I live in an area where its cold at night and hot during the day and I am bad at remembering to change the thermostat from mode to mode and haven't found a programmable IOT thermostat I can write a script for, recommendations welcome!
Because when they learn the origin of each of the 13 colonies in grade school that's the way Massachusetts and New England (which get a lot more time than some of the other because they were one of the first and US democracy traces its roots do the Pilgrims) get taught because it's the easy way.

There is a kernel of truth to it. The Pilgrims did kinda luck into settling an area that was somewhat depopulated from recent disease (but they also picked just about the most shitty area in the region so it wasn't exactly densely populated to begin with). But that line of causation gets over-played because nobody wants to stand in front of a bunch of teenagers and split hairs between various flavors of christian extremists and the circumstances by which they came to "own" the land they settled.
It depends on the scope of front-end work.

AI could handle much of the front-end development process, but the real challenge lies ahead. In the future, the UI/UX of a product will matter more than ever. Even if AI takes over front-end tasks, the bigger question is: will AI also take over UI/UX design? That's where the real creativity and differentiation lie.
Doesn't apple charge app store apps 30% all their transactions/subscriptions? What company in their right mind would want to opt into that if they don't have to?
And seeing where they’re at with the plot line killing off Bond, it’s definitely an inflection point to see how they reinvent the series. Until now, Bond never actually died, but Amazon might just find a way…
Yeah, I made the right reply, but to the wrong person. bubble12345 was confidently wrong, and bufferoverflow got downvoted for correcting him, but your caveats to his answer were fine; and that PDF is well within the sane range, even if mine is substantially tighter.
I'm in a similar boat but it's more like "I have nothing I can hide".

These days I just tell friends & family to assume that nothing they do is private.
Yes. I’m now close to retirement and am grooming my successor to replace me next year.

For now, I’m focusing my mentorship energy on promising women and minorities, and helping them network.
I don't think it's the responsibility of the author to make any constructive input to the passkey problem. The point of the article is to show the valid shortcomings of this technology that a bunch of companies are attempting to force on users.

My workaround to allow passkeys to be reasonably usable is to use my password manager, just like the author of this article. This makes passkeys essentially the same as passwords.

At no point am I tying account access to a device, or series of devices, as this is ridiculous and unusable.

Passkeys as encouraged by the big companies are all about vendor lock-in than security.
It’s to throw out people coming in tank tops. They don’t have a long list of donts. They have a short list of do’s. Do wear formal clothing like a dress coat and dress pants.
> I solve this by creating two passkeys for each account, for iOS and Chrome. This covers all the devices I might use to log in and there’s no single point of failure.

This just seems to mean that, instead of being the whim of one corporation from being locked out of all your accounts, you're the whim of two corporations away. That's better, but I'd hardly call it solved.
Growth itself is very ambiguous.

To start with, there will always be a growing number of events that (relatively to our species evolution, until its disappearance) will be in the past. Not necessarily more events with artifacts to which we can have access to though.

It’s not like "consumption" is an act of annihilation of anything, this is all transformations. At least as far as energy-mass equilibrium goes.

In a sense, we can literally lose information, as it will never be possible to access it again, be it a star (the stellar body) existence that is out of observable, a species which disappeared million years ago that has let no trace of its passage on earth, or our beloved ones whose loving memory won’t last much centuries.
fun fact: on Android, limiting 2G is a premium feature.

buy top of the line android like pixel pro: there's a huge toggle switch "allow 2G".

buy a middle or lower end device, no matter from Samsung, Motorola, etc... and for some inexplicable (heh) reason all companies decided that paying an engineer to apply a patch to remove that toggle from stock android was a solid investment :ponderingfaceemoji

you can still disable it with the very user friendly

*#*#4636#*#*

and then picking any radio preference list that excludes gsm. (edit: hn swallows asterisks)
I moves to an android phone to buy a folding phone and I lost all my passkeys. Its a nightmare
The rage bait on the internet claims they are changing the lore to accommodate DEI. Don't shoot the messenger plz. I'm just saying I understand why the creative content owners are concerned about Amazon retconning lore and maybe want to see how things like Warhammer play out first.
More broadly, but not unconditionally. They can apply reasonable (definition of that can be another point of contention) restrictions via their app review process as long as the restrictions are applied consistently to all applicants.
I have no answer for that. This does not mean there is no answer (yet). But if we never say "enough!" we can rest assured that nobody will ever innovate beyond what we currently have.
This is angels-on-pins level stuff, though. In normal English lax enforcement of a rule doesn't mean you're not required to obey it. It just means you're gambling that you won't be put under sufficient pressure to crack your resolve.

All EU countries have to publicly commit to joining the Euro and doing the work to do so. They are therefore required to join it, under any reasonable interpretation of the treaty language. The fact that some countries realized they could just not do what they agreed to and/or hack their economy to avoid the entry criteria, without any consequences, is good evidence that the treaties are indeed meaningless. But lax enforcement isn't the same as no requirement. The EU Commission could change their stance at any time.
This feels like the biggest misstep that may impede the success of passkeys to me. It's not that surprising, though, since it's pretty rare to find genuine support for multiple authentication factors of the same type already. You can usually only register one number for SMS, and/or one TOTP authenticator, etc. It seems like a lot of sites never really understood (or cared about) the benefits of MFA to the user and so can't be bothered to really understand passkeys either.
It's ok to say you all don't know what "AGI" even is.
You can check your fingerprint on https://tls.peet.ws
Until Fleming started writing the books with the films in mind, Bond was already a very different Bond.

The books are uneven, IMHO, but "Casino Royale", the first of Fleming's novels — written well before the "Dr. No" film — is enjoyable and will give you a very different Bond from what you are used to. Insecure, self-doubting, no "gadgets".... "Diamonds Are Forever" was perhaps my favorite of the books though.

(The film "Goldfinger" actually improved upon the plot of the original book in my opinion — in the book Goldfinger actually tries to steal the gold from Fort Knox.)
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Maybe a code gen layer that generates rust types from a db schema. I don’t know rust but have seen those in other languages. I could see a DB enum type corresponding to a language specific enum type and then the language rules applying.

I do think this is a level of indirection myself; if the generated code was perfect and always in sync, that would be one thing, but by definition it is not the case.
>appropriate jeans matching the jacket

Double denim?
I agree, the problem definitely exists. When you mentioned that the content your friends send you tends to be higher quality, I totally get that. Personally, my friends and I usually share things through WhatsApp or Instagram. However, that doesn’t stop the doomscrolling we all end up doing.

What I’m trying to say is that, given how easy it is to send content on WhatsApp and Instagram, it’s hard to imagine someone logging into a website just to share a link when they could just do it in their friends’ WhatsApp group. Maybe you could think about creating something more accessible. You mentioned a Chrome extension, which could help, but it’s well-known that about 58% of internet users are on mobile. When I go to share a link, my social media apps are already right there, ready to go.

I’m just thinking about how people would use it day-to-day. Don’t get me wrong—I think it’s a great idea! But maybe making it a bit easier for people to share content could help with adoption.
Is it going to be open source?
Rape of female prisoners by male prisoners is extremely rare overall because, thankfully, most prisons are still segregated by sex. However, in every jurisdiction that has decided to implement a policy of housing prisoners by self-declared "gender identity", this has - as everyone against such policy predicted - made the problem of sexual assault and rape in prisons worse, because this enables predatory males access to female victims, who are trapped in prison with these men.

This is why we have single-sex prisons in the first place, because of the inevitable harm to women, through violence, sexual assault, rape and unwanted pregnancy, that was committed against them by male prisoners in mixed-sex prison systems. Look up the work of Elizabeth Fry: she and other prison reformers extensively documented the horrors of prisons in Victorian England and in particular the awful impact upon women of being incarcerated with men.

Exactly the same is happening now, in the 21st century, because of these misogynistic "gender identity" policies that benefit males while deliberately ignoring the risks and harms inflicted upon women.
Absolutely not. Time Machine is just a SAMBA share with a nice UI on the client side. If the backup directory gets encrypted, all the versions of your files will also be encrypted.
Yes, mathematically telephoto is exactly just cropped wide angle. The same light field is falling on the front element of either lens so, modulo focus effects and distortion, it could not be otherwise.

(Differing projections/distortions such as fisheye are likewise exactly equivalent to mathematical transforms for the same reason.)

You can see that this is true when using a (physical) zoom lens. When zooming, there is no change in the projected image of any sort other than it simply grows larger.

The effect you are referring to is complementary to parallax and is likewise due exactly to physical proximity to or distance from the subject being photographed. (Telephoto lenses require the subject to be further away to remain in the frame; in doing so, they move relatively closer to the background, thus longitudinally compressing the scene.)
The unrestrained capitalism here is citi bike using the government to step on the little guy. Don't confuse capitalism with free markets.
>LLM familiar enough to me.....

The problem with ChartGPT is that that dont own any platform. Which means out of the 3 Billion Android + Chrome OS User, and ~1.5B iOS + Mac. They have zero. There only partner is Microsoft with 1.5B Window PC. Considering a lot of people only do work on Windows PC I would argue that personalisation comes from Smartphone more so than PC. Which means Apple and Google holds the key.
The Curious Case of Quentell
Not-So-Solid OO Principles
We don’t know if someone complained to an official about Magnus’ pants. We don’t know who gained the most from this.
Yep I read an article about the people in Texas who live next to the refineries and LNG terminals. Lots of cancer and nobody cares. Great for Europe and corporations though.
> Health insurance that covers nothing

I have a HDHP. I think most people would describe that as "health insurance that covers nothing." Most people, however, do not have HDHPs. Medicare and Medicaid have incredible coverage. Most PPO plans have great coverage. As a general rule, US health insurance covers too much, including quackery like chiropractery.

There are definitely edge cases and horrible things that happen and should not, but they are not the norm.

One major thing I do see is people demanding unlimited care of whatever kind they want for no cost. That doesn't exist at all in other countries, which are very restrictive in comparison. In a sensible country, we would not allow millions of people to get on extremely expensive (>1k per dose) off-label diabetes medication to lose weight. This is a fantastic example of spending billions of dollars of insurance premiums on something that for almost all its users is totally superfluous when cheaper and healthier options (but not as convenient) are readily available.

In the US, this happens all the time. The fundamental tension in US healthcare is not that "insurance is too expensive" (it is), "insurance denies claims" (it does), providers are too expensive (they are), the system is too complex (it is.) The fundamental tension is that people want everything, and they want it for nothing. At the end of the day, the only solutions are a) people pay what they can afford or b) you have rationing. Either path has problems. The US currently is trying to have everything for nothing, and the show can only go on for so long. Either people don't get care because they can't afford it, or they don't get care because bureaucrats determined it's not worth it. But they cannot get whatever care they want and can find a doctor to provide, for free.